Syrris Announces Subsidiary Company - Dolomite

Syrris has announced the formation of a subsidiary company, The Dolomite Centre Limited  (Dolomite), the Microfluidic Application Centre.

With a Dti grant of £2 million, Dolomite will use its funding and technical expertise to design and build microfluidic devices and instrumentation, either to meet a client’s specification or to develop an entire instrumentation and device solution from scratch.

Dolomite will offer a complete service, including scientific consulting, device-design and rapid prototyping; through to full instrument design & development.

Success will be based on an in-depth understanding of applications combined with expertise in glass microfabrication and microfluidics.

As a subsidiary of Syrris, Dolomite has gained access to their technologies and microfluidic design and instrumentation development capabilities and in order to create a fabrication platform to build on, Dolomite acquired fabrication experts Scientific Consultants Ltd  (SCL), in February 2006. 

Dolomite has recently confirmed its Chief Technology Officer as Dr. Harold Swerdlow, formerly of Solexa Ltd., a world-renowned scientist with significant expertise in DNA analysis.

Dolomite has been funded to become a new facility in the Department of Trade and Industry's Micro and Nanotechnology (MNT) Facilities Network.

The £2m funding, part of the DTI’s MNT Capital Facilities Programme, will allow the Centre to provide open access to existing expertise and capability in microfluidics and glass processing.

An announcement was made by the DTI in April 2006. Commenting on the launch of Dolomite, Managing Director Mark Gilligan said, “This is a very exciting time for Dolomite. This £2m Dti grant will allow us to make a substantial investment to further develop our microfluidic design and fabrication capabilities in a variety of sectors.”

Dolomite’s design and manufacturing service will use specialist glass technologies for microfluidic measurement and manipulations.